G945

βατταλογέω

battalogeō

Verb · From Battos (a proverbial stammerer) and λόγος (G3056)

From Βάττος Báttos (a proverbial stammerer) and G3056; to stutter, i.e. (by implication) to prate tediously:—use vain repetitions.

Outline

  1. to stammer
  2. to repeat the same things over and over, to use many idle words, to babble, prate. Some suppose the word derived from Battus, a king of Cyrene, who is said to have stuttered; others from Battus, an author of tedious and wordy poems.
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